Chypre-Siam
Basil strikes first—green, almost medicinal, with a bright herbal sharpness that clears the air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Mossy70
- Woody65
- Leather60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBasil strikes first—green, almost medicinal, with a bright herbal sharpness that clears the air. Within minutes, jasmine and ylang-ylang arrive, but they're held in check by the opening's astringency, preventing the white florals from blooming too sweetly. The effect feels more botanical garden than perfume counter.
As it settles, oakmoss and sandalwood construct a classic chypre foundation, while leather and civet add a feral undertone that keeps the composition from drifting into politeness. Benzoin provides just enough resinous warmth to smooth the edges without sweetening the whole. The Thai basil reference in the name makes sense—there's something Southeast Asian in the way animalic and herbal elements coexist without one dominating.
This wears like a deliberate collision between French perfumery structure and raw, unvarnished materials. It asks for patience and skin chemistry willing to meet it halfway.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
